Sunday, June 24, 2012

Adventures in Eating - My Boys are Foodies

Thank goodness MJ is turning into a good eater, just like his brother. In fact, I think MJ may be an even better eater than CJ. MJ is certainly more adventurous when it comes to food and he likes all kinds of vegetables.

MJ eats everything, just everything. When we go out to a restaurant, I don't bother to bring him any food from home. I just figure he'll eat what we're eating. For Maki's birthday, we went to a BBQ restaurant and MJ happily ate pulled pork, ribs, and collard greens. Tonight, he ate broiled salmon with pine nut couscous. He likes to gnaw on celery and carrots. He absolutely adores fruit of all kinds. Nearly every evening, he'll have half a pear, a bunch of grapefruit slices, a kiwi, a nectarine, or most of an apple.

CJ is still not a great vegetable eater, although he loves broccoli and cauliflower, and he'll eat spinach if it's in lasagna or stuffed shells. He'll eat carrots if they're soft. Otherwise, he's an amazing eater. He eats chicken, beef, fish and shellfish. He loves, loves, loves sushi and all kinds of fish.

MJ loves fruit. He eats fruit with nearly every meal and he likes to feed himself.

MJ loves yogurt. In this photo, he turned into a yogurt face after eating some greek yogurt and doing a great job at feeding himself!

Can't remember what he's eating, but here again is a photo of MJ on his own. Note that he's not in his high chair, which he mostly refuses to sit in these days. He likes to sit at the kitchen island with the rest of the family.

Here's MJ trying to feed himself some Singapore noodles. He managed to twirl some noodles and put them in his mouth, but it proved too challenging, so he resorted to using his hands to grab big handfuls of noodles and stuffing them in his mouth. Singapore noodles ultimately prove too spicy for him.


Saturday, June 23, 2012

Celebrate Fairfax Was a Lot of Fun

I love county fairs so when my sister asked me if the boys and I wanted to join her and her daughter Jessie at Celebrate Fairfax, I jumped at the chance.

Celebrate Fairfax is a giant, giant county fair. There' something for everyone and it's super fun. Knowing the government parking structure nearby would fill up fast, CJ, MJ and I left the house as early as we could, which was 10:00am. We got there close to 11:00am but we still got parking. Phew!

Celebrate Fairfax has kiddie games and rides, adult games and rides, crafts, jewelry, petting zoo, live performances, and all kinds of fair food. We stayed in the kid alley, which has kid-friendly rides and food.

CJ and Jessie rode the train, the roller coaster, etc. Since Dina doesn't do spinny rides, I rode an octopus with Jessie.

Unfortunately, Jessie got sick right after lunch. She got really dizzy and threw up and couldn't recover, so Dina and Jessie went home. I hung out with the boys for a little bit longer and CJ went to a disco ride, we watched kids ride a mechanical bull, etc.

The highlight for CJ was winning a goldfish at a ring toss game. For $3, he got to toss ping pong balls into cups. One of the ping pong balls went in, so he got a 0.50 goldfish, which then cost us $84 because Maki and CJ went to Petsmart to get a tank, food, plastic plant, plastic rock, water conditioner, yada, yada.

CJ decided to be funny and sit in MJ's stroller, so MJ decided to try and push him.

I love this cute photo of the boys sharing a slushie!